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Temstar said:
Not only did Xi meet Kissinger yesterday, they threw him an belated 100 years old birthday party for lunch too complete with those giant peaches:
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Whitehouse is getting a bit upset now at all the attention Kissinger is getting.
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What’s that Chinese idiom about “meat for friends” and “swords for enemies”?
 
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Wang told Kissinger it would be "impossible" to try to reform China, and "even more impossible" to encircle and contain it.
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"U.S. policies towards China require Kissinger-style diplomatic wisdom and Nixon-style political courage," China's foreign ministry quoted Wang as saying during the meeting.
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:D

Well, there we have it. Proof of what the top echelon leadership thinks of the American lead containment policy towards China. In other words, they think it is damn stupid.

What they also think, is the current people in those positions in the United States, have no wisdom, and have no courage.

Besides being damn stupid with their China containment policy, supported by their allies they claim.

Quite a nice birthday party for Dr. Kissinger.

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Foreign direct investment into the Chinese mainland in terms of actual use dropped 2.7 percent year-on-year to 703.65 billion yuan ($97.55 billion) in the first half of 2023, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce published on Wednesday.

FDI in the country's high-tech industry grew 7.9 percent year-on-year during the six-month period, while that of high-tech manufacturing soared 28.8 percent on a yearly basis in the same period.

Developed countries' investment in China continued to grow between January and June. FDI from France, the United Kingdom, Japan and Germany jumped by 173.3, 135.3, 53 and 14.2 percent year-on-year, respectively.

In the meantime, China saw its newly established foreign-invested enterprises reach 24,000, a year-on-year increase of 35.7 percent.
 
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TAIPEI, July 21 (Reuters) - Taiwan is investigating a potential leak of official documents including diplomatic cables and classified reports on the island's sensitive bid to join a global trade pact, according to two officials familiar with the probe.

One official said initial findings show parts of the documents, posted on online message board 8kun and reviewed by Reuters, are real while bits were forged, without giving details.
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WASHINGTON, July 20 (Reuters) - Beijing-linked hackers accessed the email account of the U.S. ambassador to China in an espionage operation thought to have compromised at least hundreds of thousands of U.S. government emails, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Thursday.

Daniel Kritenbrink, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia, was also hacked in the wider spying operation disclosed this month by Microsoft (MSFT.O), the newspaper said, citing people familiar with the matter.

A spokesperson for China's embassy in Washington said China consistently opposed hacking and it rejected "groundless" speculation about the source of cyber attacks.

"China firmly opposes and combats cyber attacks and cyber theft in all forms. This position is consistent and clear," spokesperson Liu Pengyu said in an emailed response to Reuters.

"Identifying the source of cyber attacks is a complex technical issue. We hope that relevant sides will adopt a professional and responsible attitude ... rather than make groundless speculations and allegations."
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BANGKOK, July 21 (Reuters) - Thailand's election-winning Move Forward party announced on Friday it was making way for runner-up Pheu Thai to try to he form the next government, after its leader's bid was twice thwarted this month by a military-backed Senate.

Move Forward and Pheu Thai have 151 and 141 seats in 500-member lower house, respectively, but their alliance needs the backing of more than half of the combined chambers, including a 249-member Senate appointed by the military after a 2014 coup, which has voted as a bloc to protect establishment interests.

Move Forward's ambitious agenda of ending business monopolies and reforming the military and a tough law that insulates the monarchy from public criticism, represents a challenge to conservatives and old money elites, which have for decades wielded influence over Thailand's politics.


Chaithawat said rival lawmakers had used Move Forward's bid to amend article 112 of the criminal code, which prohibits insults of the crown, as a pretext to deny the will of the people.

"They used 112 as an excuse and used loyalty (to the monarchy) to clash with the public vote," he said.

Pheu Thai, the political juggernaut of the billionaire Shinawatra family and Thailand's most dominant party for two decades, is expected to nominate real estate mogul and political newcomer Srettha Thavisin for prime minister for the next vote on July 27.

The benchmark Thai index (.SETI) and baht were both up slightly in Friday morning trade.

Pheu Thai faces the many of the same hurdles as Move Forward, and has its own bitter history with the military, which overthrew two of its governments, leading to criminal charges that forced two prime ministers - siblings Thaksin Shinawatra and Yingluck Shinawatra - into self-imposed exile.

But it has been more circumspect on the proposal to amend the royal insult law.
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